Four men and one woman reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, boarding a miniaturized sub and being injected into a dying man's carotid artery. Passing through the heart, entering the inner ear where even the slightest sound would destroy them, battling relentlessly into the cranium. Their objective…to reach a blood clot and destroy it with the piercing rays of a laser. At stake…the fate of the entire world. The Heart of the "Fantastic Voyage" - ties in with Life Science Isaac Asimov - biography
Ideas for Research & Product Development
Board Game
Create a board game of the body system that you and your crack investigative team have been assigned to research.
After you have studied the skeleton, muscles, digestion, circulation and respiration have the students pretend they are in sick person who needs their help. This is like Fantastic Voyage (the movie)but obviously not so complicated!
Brainstorm ideas on how to use one, two, or all body systems covered in class to make your skit entertaining and informative. The class can be divided into equal groups or size based on interest in a particular body system. Give the groups help on aspects of the body you didn't cover if they want to use them in their skit. Select a narrarator if desired and each group has speaking parts as the organs.
This skit can cover not only the purposes of each vital organ, bones, and muscles, but also the major childhood diseases or problems that occur with smoking, drinking, and drug use. There can be a healthy and a sick lung to tell their stories. You could have a heart that needs a transplant and the healthy heart that will take its place. You can make costumes or have the organs wear signs identifying themselves. You may want to have doctors who perform the surgeries or set the broken bones. Whatever you have time for. If you can get help from other people in your building to make props you won't have to spend time doing that. Science, level: Upper Elementary & Middle Posted by Susan Smith (gman@ionet.net). Pat Henry Elementary, Lawton, OK, USA Activity Time: 5-7 class periods, not counting rehearsals. Concepts Taught: anatomy and function Teachers.Net Lesson Plans
Purpose
To understand that there are different systems within the body and that they work independently and together to form a functioning human body.
Kids Health - How the Body Works Movies, articles, words. quizzes, and more! Kids Health If you're looking for information you can trust about kids and teens that's free of "doctor speak," you've come to the right place.
KidsHealth is the most-visited site on the Web for information about health, behavior, and development from before birth through the teen years.
Kids Biology.com - Click on your Body System in the middle & ignore the grade choices at the top!
Human Anatomy Online Take a tour of the human body and roll your mouse over the system to learn the names and functions of various organs. This site features colorful diagrams, extensive labels, and clear, descriptive text.
Teens Health – Your Body Scroll to “Body Basics Library” at the bottom of the page to view a list of links containing information on each body system.
AMA Atlas of the Body Contains links to diagrams and information each major human body system.
Nature's Best: The Human Body This site provides a comprehensive look at the human body's circulatory, digestive, immune, nervous, muscular, reproductive, respiratory, and skeletal systems.
Awesome student resource online featuring full text articles from over 200 magazines & newspapers and is FREE!
Gale Student Resource Center Jr. is a fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. Includes Student Resource Center-Health Module.
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Four men and one woman reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, boarding a miniaturized sub and being injected into a dying man's carotid artery. Passing through the heart, entering the inner ear where even the slightest sound would destroy them, battling relentlessly into the cranium. Their objective…to reach a blood clot and destroy it with the piercing rays of a laser. At stake…the fate of the entire world.
The Heart of the "Fantastic Voyage" - ties in with Life Science
Isaac Asimov - biography
Ideas for Research & Product Development
Board Game
Create a board game of the body system that you and your crack investigative team have been assigned to research.Tips for Creating a Board Game
First Steps in Board Game DesignAll A-Board: Creating a Personalized Game
Human body skit
After you have studied the skeleton, muscles, digestion, circulation and respiration have the students pretend they are in sick person who needs their help. This is like Fantastic Voyage (the movie)but obviously not so complicated!Brainstorm ideas on how to use one, two, or all body systems covered in class to make your skit entertaining and informative. The class can be divided into equal groups or size based on interest in a particular body system. Give the groups help on aspects of the body you didn't cover if they want to use them in their skit. Select a narrarator if desired and each group has speaking parts as the organs.
This skit can cover not only the purposes of each vital organ, bones, and muscles, but also the major childhood diseases or problems that occur with smoking, drinking, and drug use. There can be a healthy and a sick lung to tell their stories. You could have a heart that needs a transplant and the healthy heart that will take its place. You can make costumes or have the organs wear signs identifying themselves. You may want to have doctors who perform the surgeries or set the broken bones. Whatever you have time for. If you can get help from other people in your building to make props you won't have to spend time doing that.
Science, level: Upper Elementary & Middle Posted by Susan Smith (gman@ionet.net). Pat Henry Elementary, Lawton, OK, USA Activity Time: 5-7 class periods, not counting rehearsals. Concepts Taught: anatomy and function Teachers.Net Lesson Plans
Research Links: Getting to know the body systems
from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- All Systems Go! Esheet
- All Systems Go! Student Activity Sheet
PurposeTo understand that there are different systems within the body and that they work independently and together to form a functioning human body.
Kids Health - How the Body Works Movies, articles, words. quizzes, and more!
Kids Health If you're looking for information you can trust about kids and teens that's free of "doctor speak," you've come to the right place.
KidsHealth is the most-visited site on the Web for information about health, behavior, and development from before birth through the teen years.
Kids Biology.com - Click on your Body System in the middle & ignore the grade choices at the top!
Human Body Systems by Kids Konnect
Circulatory System
Circulatory System 1
Circulatory System: The Life Pump
Circulatory System Theme Page
Kids Health: Your Heart & Circulatory System
Wikipedia: The Circulatory System
How Your Immune System Works
Immune System
Kids' Health: The Immune System
Kids Health: Your Immune System
Overview: Immune System
The Immune System: Defending Our Bodies
Understanding The Immune System
Wikipedia: The Immune System
Human Skeleton Printout-Enchanted Learning.com
Kids Health: Your Bones
Skeletal System
Skeletal System 1
Skeletal System: The Bone Zone
Skeletal System (Front View)
Skeletal System (Back View)
Skeletal System – Tutorials & Quizzes
The Skeletal System
The Skeleton
Your Gross and Cool Body
Wikipedia: Skeleton
Excretory System
IMCPL Kids’ Guide: Excretory System
Kids Biology: Excretory System
Kids Health: Your Urinary System
Poison Protection
The Excretory System
Urinary System
Urinary System 1
Wikipedia: The Excretory System
Yucky: Armpits
Yucky: Poop
Biology4Kids – Muscular System
Bundles of Energy: The Muscular System
How Muscles Work
IMCPL Kids’ Guide: Muscular System
Kids Health: Your Muscles
Muscular System
Muscular System Information
Muscular Systems (Front View)
Muscle System Overview
Your Gross and Cool Body
Wikipedia: Muscular System
Endocrine System
Kids Health: Your Endocrine System
The Endocrine System
Wikipedia: Endocrine System
Yucky: The Endocrine System
Digestive System 1
How the Body Works: The Digestive System
Human Digestive System
IMCPL Kids’ Guide: Digestive System
Kids Health: Your Digestive System
My Body
Pictures of the Digestive System
The Digestive System
The Digestive System 1
Wikipedia: Gastrointestinal Tract
Kids Health: Your Brain and Nervous System
Nervous System
Nervous System: The Control Center
Neuroscience for Kids
Neuroscience for Kids-Explore the Nervous System
Seeing, Hearing, Smelling the World
The Human Nervous System
Types of Neurons
Your Gross and Cool Body
Welcome to the Nervous System
Wikipedia: The Nervous System
How the Body Works: The Respiratory System
Kids Health: Your Lungs & Respiratory System
Oxygen Delivery System
Respiratory System
Teach Your Child – Respiratory System
The Human Respiratory System
Your Respiratory System
Wikipedia: The Respiratory System
Take a tour of the human body and roll your mouse over the system to learn the names and functions of various organs.
This site features colorful diagrams, extensive labels, and clear, descriptive text.
Teens Health – Your Body
Scroll to “Body Basics Library” at the bottom of the page to view a list of links containing information on each body system.
AMA Atlas of the Body
Contains links to diagrams and information each major human body system.
Nature's Best: The Human Body
This site provides a comprehensive look at the human body's circulatory, digestive, immune, nervous, muscular, reproductive, respiratory, and skeletal systems.
The Online Biology Book Table of Contents
Contains informative links for each system of the human body.
Includes information about the brain, the digestive system, the heart, and the skeleton. Also includes interactive activities.
BodyQuest
Provides an overview of the major body systems, including diagrams for each system.
Anatomy Explorer
Contains animated graphics and illustrations of the human anatomy.
BBC – Science and Nature – Human Body and Mind
Look in “The Body” section of this site for good diagrams, information, and animations of each system.
Discovery Kids – Your Gross and Cool Body OR
The Yuckiest Site
Choose from a list of body systems and click “go” to learn more about the structures and functions of that system.
http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/body/
http://sciencespot.net/Pages/kdzhealth.html
http://www.kidinfo.com/health/human_body.html
http://www.squidoo.com/human-anatomy-kids#module133713571
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/systems/body.html
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/bodyintro_34/
http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/body/pg000029.html
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-body/human-body/
http://www.cpsd.us/haggerty/body.html
http://www.kidsbiology.com/human_biology/respiratory-system.php
http://www.medtropolis.com/VBody.asp
http://library.thinkquest.org/10348/
MHMS Research Databases Quick Link
Sweet Search: Search Engine for Students
Gale Student Resource Center -Infotrac
Awesome student resource online featuring full text articles from over 200 magazines & newspapers and is FREE!Gale Student Resource Center Jr. is a fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. Includes Student Resource Center-Health Module.
Gale Science Resource
Researching science topics has never been easier -- with Science Resource Center, thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards.Sirs
Sirs Knowledge Portal -- Main Jumping off site for all things SIRS!
SIRS Knowledge Source & Decades: Quick Search
SIRS Knowledge Source is a comprehensive online interface providing integrated access to thousands of full-text articles, documents, and graphics from SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, and SIRS Renaissance. Thousands of full-text articles from domestic and international sources exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues are available.
SIRS Decades: Quick Search
SIRS Decades features more than 5,000 hand-selected primary and secondary source articles highlighting key events, movements, people, and places in 20th-century America. Coverage includes documents, letters and memos, editorial cartoons, streaming video, websites, photographs, maps, advertisements, and published articles.
http://sks.sirs.com/
World Book
World Book Online Reference Center (American English)World Book Student, the new version of World Book Reference Center, with articles, multimedia, Web sites, and much more.
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Home
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